Science: Mother Was a Thoroughbred

In a white frame laboratory on an outpost of the Essar Ranch near San
Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially
anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on
the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes
later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range
of a nearby rancherbut if all goes well she will bear a calf which
has two pedigreed parents.

Last week Ray E. Umbaugh, 28, who has never had time to take a degree,
told a group of cattlemen and...